but but but... Muslim!
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Waitress wins payout over 'figure-hugging' dress
Summary: a waitress is told that her uniform will change. The change is that the female uniform is bright red and figure-hugging, while the men's uniform remains loose and dark. She objects to being an object, and is fired. She sues for discriminatory treatment. She wins, as the tribunal agrees that the new uniform code treated women differently from men, but does not get the amount she asked for.
Straightforward, so far?
Only the opening line is
But that is, as Ms Lemes points out, completely irrelevant. People wear bikinis at the beach all the time, but that does not make it less degrading to be forced to wear one at work.
Her religion does not make her offended where there would otherwise be none, her religion makes her more aware of when her figure is being used to objectify her. She is not a burka-wearing fundamentalist, she is a modern, liberated woman. And there was a line she was not prepared to cross.
The deliberately-missing-the-point-stupidity burns.
Waitress wins payout over 'figure-hugging' dress
Summary: a waitress is told that her uniform will change. The change is that the female uniform is bright red and figure-hugging, while the men's uniform remains loose and dark. She objects to being an object, and is fired. She sues for discriminatory treatment. She wins, as the tribunal agrees that the new uniform code treated women differently from men, but does not get the amount she asked for.
Straightforward, so far?
Only the opening line is
A Muslim cocktail waitress. As if that makes the circumstances different. Surely sexist treatment is sexist, no matter the religion. She, as a woman felt like she was being advertised as part of the menu, and objected. Surely that should be enough, right? But no. She is Muslim, and thus ripe for The Daily Hate and the Scum to attack her for hypocrisy, because they found a photo of her taken at the beach.
But that is, as Ms Lemes points out, completely irrelevant. People wear bikinis at the beach all the time, but that does not make it less degrading to be forced to wear one at work.
Her religion does not make her offended where there would otherwise be none, her religion makes her more aware of when her figure is being used to objectify her. She is not a burka-wearing fundamentalist, she is a modern, liberated woman. And there was a line she was not prepared to cross.
The deliberately-missing-the-point-stupidity burns.
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Date: 2009-06-16 05:51 am (UTC)*head desk*
Well, on the good side at least they are making their Muslim-hatred transparent.
I'm surprised they didn't complain that she was (a) working and (b) working in a cocktail bar.
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Date: 2009-06-16 02:13 pm (UTC)One is "Another win for feminism" yawn. The other is "See! Muslims want special treatment/are crazy fundamentalists/are hypocrites" ZOMG!oneoneeleven. Of course the sensationalist newspapers are going to go for the ZOMG slant.
It's an exasperatingly circular thing that is going on there. Those newspapers tell people what to find newsworthy, then report it in such a way that the story again tells the people what to find newsworthy. With luck, they will disappear up their own fundament one day.
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Date: 2009-06-17 10:44 am (UTC)-- mpp